Project News We released Add-on SDK version 1.8.1 today to address a regression in 1.8. For all the gory details, head on over to the bug. I did ta brown-bag presentation for the Mozilla interns in Mountain View yesterday on ‘why add-ons don’t suck’, that was recorded on Air Mozilla. The Jetpack project is excited… Continue reading
Following along from last week’s 1.8 release, we’ve released a 1.8.1 patch release today to address a regression logged in bug 771825. You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. This bug was reported by Yonatan Ben-Nes on the Jetpack google group. The problem can affect any add-on that uses the… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 10 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Project News We released SDK 1.8 last Tuesday as you’d expect, and then the awesome people on the Builder team followed up one day later by updating to 1.8 as well. Alex & Gabor are working on a patch to eliminate all sandbox-related leaks, hopefully we can land this soon! Inspired by the devtools team’s… Continue reading
Update: The winners have been chosen! Voting has begun in the Favorite Add-ons contest. Your votes will decide the three winners of the Android tablets! When voting, keep in mind the following three criteria: Is the story compelling? How creative is the use of the favorite add-on? Does the review capture the “spirit” of the… Continue reading
